Aretha Franklin Quotes

American - Musician | March 25, 1942 - August 16, 2018

Everybody wants respect. In their own way, three-year-olds would like respect, and acknowledgment, in their terms.

Aretha Franklin

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I think it would be a far greater world if people were kinder and more respectful to each other.

Aretha Franklin

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Music does a lot of things for a lot of people. It's transporting, for sure. It can take you right back, years back, to the very moment certain things happened in your life. It's uplifting, it's encouraging, it's strengthening.

Aretha Franklin

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I donate heavily to the church and various churches in the Detroit community and food banks.

Aretha Franklin

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My mentor was Clara Ward of the famous Ward gospel singers of Philadelphia. And my dad was my coach. He coached me. And just my natural love for music is what drove me.

Aretha Franklin

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For many years, I've wanted to do one, and I've always mentioned it to the chieftains, and they would say things like, 'Oh well. Christmas albums don't sell,' and things like that. But that's not the point. Christmas albums are important. The music is important. The season is important.

Aretha Franklin

MusicImportantSayChristmasAlways

Sam Cooke had a huge influence on me. He left the gospel field at one point and went into the secular, and he had this huge hit, 'You Send Me.' Irma, my older sister, and I heard 'You Send Me' on the radio while we were driving through the South one night. We had to stop the car. We got out and danced around the car out on the highway.

Aretha Franklin

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Columbia was a wonderful label for me. Wonderful. The records I made there garnered me an audience. I won a number of polls during the years that I was at Columbia. The Downbeat Jazz Poll. Leonard Feather, who was a huge critic back in the day, different polls that he had. The Playboy poll, a number of polls. So the music was great.

Aretha Franklin

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Now, occasionally I will still have that quarter pounder because I love fast food, but you have to keep it to a minimum.

Aretha Franklin

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Don't say Aretha is making a comeback, because I've never been away!

Aretha Franklin

ComebackSayNeverBecauseBeen

Women absolutely deserve respect.

Aretha Franklin

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My faith always has been and always will be important to me.

Aretha Franklin

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